Panda Po
Shining on Shanghai
Last year the Shanghai International Film Festival invited loose-lipped Sharon Stone as special guest. To avoid the same mistake, this year the festival brought over only one Hollywood star: the two-meter tall Panda Po of the animated film, Kung Fu Panda. The film's Shanghai ... Read More
Black Eyed Peas
Here Is the Love
The Black Eyed Peas and Karen Mok threw a surprise, invite-only benefit concert for the Sichuan earthquake victims in early June. Perhaps because of the somber theme, Fergie was mild in her dance steps and her famous sexy top and mini skirt morphed ... Read More
Morning Girls
Pop Power
The Japanese girl group Morning Musume (or, Morning Girls) will sing for the 2010 Shanghai Expo this June. The nine girls (including two Chinese girls) will sing Japanese pop tunes and perform in the requisite mini skirts, bleached hair and doll-like make-up, which has been their ... Read More
Curtis Hanson
Poker Face
What's this new development in the on-again-off-again love affair between Hollywood and China? The Oscar-winning director of LA Confidential and 8 Mile spent a week in Shanghai earlier in May at the invitation of the Shanghai Film Archive as well as Martin Scorseses's Film ... Read More